Soong May-ling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
-- Soong May-ling

#Country #Progress #Politics
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
-- Soong May-ling

#Peace #Shadow #Wagon Wheels
I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.
-- Soong May-ling

#Leadership #Heart #Train
No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.
-- Soong May-ling

#Prayer #Unique
I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
-- Soong May-ling

#Praying #Gods Will #I Pray
The only thing Oriental about me is my face,
-- Soong May-ling

#Faces
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
-- Soong May-ling

#Distance #Airplane #Government

We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f^&k you're talking about.
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, â€˜We want it now, in our lifetime.â€™ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Soong May-ling famous quotes

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